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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Virginia Tech researchers find estimates of the carbon cycle are incorrect; implications for models

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This carbon dioxide that’s coming in and going out is essential for balancing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change and storing carbon long-term. —Lisa Welp, an associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at Purdue University, who was not part of the research.

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INRIX: shared bikes and scooters could replace nearly 50% of downtown vehicle trips

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The high proportion of short-distance trips—independent of a city’s density or public transit network—highlights the universal potential for shared scooters and bikes. Road Rules is a cloud-based platform that enables cities and road authorities to digitize and store all of their mobility information in a centralized location.

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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

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Hamptons-bound buses will pick up passengers at only one location in Manhattan: Hudson Yards , the neighborhood of luxury apartment buildings, stores and office towers occupied by technology companies like Meta and financial firms like BlackRock and Point 72. Operations will start just before Memorial Day weekend and run into the fall.

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California Energy Commission awards $750K to Electricore to study standardization of plug-in vehicle batteries

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The stored, compressed air will be used to generate electricity on an “on demand” basis to meet the facility’s needs, including periods of high demand or grid outages. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears.